The guy who played Stanny was so unbelievably bad as an actor that I had to look him up on IMDB. I couldn't believe it was possible for someone that bad to get a job on a film which had an otherwise OK cast. Turns out he's the guy who wrote the script. He's never acted before. And it's HORRIBLE. It even has a Mary-Sue voiceover by him at the end. Good lord.
The others were OK. I think the movie would have been pretty good if he hadn't been so distractingly awful and nearly omnipresent. I used to think that some actors were really bad, but they look really good next to this guy. It's a shame, but one catastrophically bad actor who is in almost every scene CAN ruin a movie.
I have no idea why NPR thought this was so awesome. None at all. I usually trust their entertainment reviews, but now that I think of it - I think this movie was covered as a technology story, not as an actual entertainment story (because it's been distributed online, probably on account of the fact that IT SUCKS). Feh.